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Ingredients in Pink Lotion Hand Soap

Ingredients in Pink Lotion Hand Soap

Pink lotion hand soap is a common soap product that's marketed as an affordable alternative to expensive bar and lotion soaps. It is sold in large quantities by office and janitorial supply companies. It produces abundant lather in both hard and soft water.

Cocamidopropyl Betaine

Cocamidopropyl betaine boosts the amount of foam in soap. It increases viscosity and works in a wide range of pH levels. It is also compatible with a wide range of surfactants, chemicals that help disperse and mix substances that are otherwise not able to dissolve in each other. It is a pale, yellow, transparent liquid that can act as an acid or a base. It is used in mild soaps as it does not irritate skin or mucous membranes. It also has some antibiotic effects.

Cocomide DEA

Cocomide DEA is also known as coconut fatty acid diethanolamide. It can be in the form of a viscous clear to amber liquid, or exist as solid flakes. Manufactured from coconuts, cocomide DEA is formed when the fatty acids in coconut oils react with diethanolamine. Cocomide DEA is a foaming agents as well as an emulsifier, a type of surfactant used to equally disperse mixtures of fluids that do not normally combine.

Sodium Laureth Sulfate

Sodium laureth sulfate is one of a class of surfactants known as straight-chain alkyl benzene sulfonates. Surfactants lower the surface tension of water, making the water spread easier. Sodium laureth sulfate acts as a foaming agent and as a detergent. It is a large molecule that does not easily penetrate skin. The term "laureth" is a contraction of "lauryl ether."

Water

Water in Pink Lotion Hand Soap is used as a solvent to form the emulsions in which the other ingredients are dispersed. The amount of water controls the concentration of the product: more water equals a more dilute final product.